The Women's Coalition

The Women's Coalition

​Fighting for the Power​​​To Keep & Protect

Our Children

The Crisis​

Women losing custody of children in epidemic numbers ​causing incalculable devastation to women and children

The Solution

The "Child Custody Court" systemoperating in civil court with juries and other due process protections

NETWORK THIS WARNING TO ALL WOMEN:If your relationship fails, your ex can take your children away from you.

You don't have the power to keep custody of your children​as you've been led to believe, even if you've been their primary nurturer.

And you don't have the power to protect your children​if your ex becomes abusive.

The truth is if the father of your children decides he wants custodyto avoid child support, keep control, punish you for leaving,or to keep abusing the children, or you through the children,a judge will most likely switch custody to him.

Family Court judges do not rule in the best interests of children.They rule to uphold male power and authority in the family.

ABOUT THE CRISIS

What the crisis is Judges routinely take children away from primary nurturing mothers and give them​to fathers who are abusive, controlling, vengeful, or who want to avoid child support.How it is happeningJudges, often with the assistance of court-appointed attorneys and psychologists,​falsely find women to be liars, alienators, mentally ill, or emotionally abusive,​while disregarding or minimizing unfitness or abuse by the father.How judges get away with itThe family court system is designed so judges can rule however they want​regardless of facts, evidence, research, the law or Constitution. Why it is happeningUnderpinning family court systems around the world is the patriarchal agendato maintain male power and control ​over "their" women and children. What's gender got to do with itThe crisis is gendered, but the solution provides due process for men and women.​Why women don't knowJudges issue gag orders and threaten women with loss of custody if they speak out; fathers' rights groups disseminate misinformation; andthe male-dominated mainstream media won't cover this issue. What's the solutionThe solution is to limit judges' power through juries and other protections, which are provided for in the "Child Custody Reform Act" proposed by The Women's Coalition.Getting the solution implementedWomen must unite as a class, as half the population, and demand their legislators enact the "Child Custody Reform Act". Join The Women's Coalition where the battle is on!

Interview with Women's Coalition PR Director Vicky Haigh

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Petitions to the United Nations

The Women's Coalition submitted Petitions to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2015 and 2016 asking for recognition of the discrimination and the pattern of human rights violations causing women to have their children taken from them and given to the fathers. Thanks to this Petition, the CSW has subsequently recognized this prevalent form of discrimination. This year we requested they get one of the six main organs of the UN, the UNEconomic and Social Council, to make this issue a priority.

The Women's Coalition has submitted a new Petition/Complaint to a Working Group under another main organ of the UN, the UNHuman Rights Council. We are asking the Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and Practice to get the UN HRC to make this issue a thematic priority and encourage nations to implement a new system that will provide due process and equal protection.

We are asking this important Working Group to make "Child Custody Discrimination" a thematic priority for the Human Rights Council and to subsequently push governments to enact and enforce a new system which will provide due process and equal protection for women and children. The Women's Coalition will be giving them a description of the proposed system.